Encyclopedia of Postmodernism

This newEncyclopedia of Postmodernismis structured with biographical entries on all the key contributors to the postmodernism debate, including Mikhail Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas and Wittgenstein. Providing an all-encompassing and welcome addition to the field, theEncyclopediacontains entries on foundational concepts of postmodernism which have revolutionized thinking in every intellectual discipline. Entries include: canonicity; deconstruction; grammatology; historicism; intertextuality; modernism; semiotics. Terminology and concepts are drawn from right across the disciplines from anthropology, sociology, linguistics and geography to film, French, gay and lesbian and critical legal studies.